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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:36:13 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: greg@merrimack.edu, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: for loop at your command prompt
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On Wed, 11 March 1998 at 16:14:41 -0500, Greg Fraize wrote:
> can someone please tell me how I could do a
> for loop at my shell prompt...
> I've seen it done before...but I was un-able to remember what
> that person type ..thans

This is really a question for -questions, not -hackers.  I'm
redirecting accordingly.

That depends on your shell.  You *should*, of course, be using a
Bourne-style shell.  For that, the syntax is:

 for <name> in <list of things> do <things>; done

For example, to compare all the files in the current directory which
also exist in another directory, you might enter:

 otherdir=../foo		 # name of the other directory
 for i in *; do
   if [ -f $i -a -f $otherdir/$i ]; then
     cmp $i $otherdir/$i
   fi
 done

Greg

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